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Re: gcc-3



Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 07:17:29PM +0530, Viral wrote:
> > If I am building a new package, which uses c++, is it a better idea to
> > use gcc 3 rather than the current one ?
> 
> Not unless the upstream source requires g++ 3.0 (can't think of any
> reason why it should).

One package of mine (exult) exposes bugs in the Alpha version of g++
2.95. g++ 3.0 works well, so I had to force it (it's not default there).

Note that this makes your package dependent (at least on those
architectures where enabled) on the 3.0 g++ libraries. This can make trouble
with testing, but currently g++ seems synced in testing.

For simplicity, I opted to compile it with 3.0 on other platforms as
well ... this may or may not be appropriate for you.

-- 
Robbe

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